Exactly that Dan tells it how it is on match day and isn’t afraid to give players poor ratings. But when it comes to signings he has to toe the line of positivity, but I suspect that’s becoming increasingly hard.

Disappointed but not surprised with this signing. Guess it shows where we are as a club. We've tried and failed to sign Sailor and Lam and who knows, maybe had other targets who have turned us down too.

On the plus side, he's been a regular in the NRL this year and his stats are decent plus he's not Drinkwater.
Again not mouthwatering but Sezer, Abdul and Cust are certainly an upgrade on Trueman, Morgan Smith and Nu Brown.

Now let's see if this marquee signing will be made as Myler has promised.......

As I’ve said all along I can’t see us signing anyone of any note. Scrapping the barrel, which is a consequence of where we are as a club.

Any guesses who'll be the final quota signing?

I'll go for Carlos 2 year extension!

Whoever it is I just wish they'd just announce it now to put us out of our misery.

Can we afford a marquee signing?

To be fair, what Dan says is right, Wests have looked alot better with him playing and he has had a decent season, think the issue is he will be 34, so not exactly long term planning which we need and isn't much of a runner anymore, think him and Abdul are too similar, if we had signed Seizer and say Will Pryce then it would have been OK.

Certainly has a better season than Sullivan and Asi who most would have been happy with, maybe they are more of a style we needed.

The stark reality is we're not an attractive proposition for potential signings. No play off place since the random 2020 season, a string of players leaving before the end of their contracts and Cartwright will be our sixth coach since the start of 2020. We not going to sign top players. In 2016/2017 we would probably been able to sign a Lam or a McMeeken or a Whitehead.

Our best hope is that the likes of Hardaker, Sezer, Abdull and Cust improve us and make us a little harder to beat and less of a basket case over the next couple of years.

Agree, also got to hope that the experience the younger players have had this year makes them better squad players than what we've had the last few years.

Other big thing is fitness, it's quite clear last winter was very slack. We've already seen improvements in the last few months since Smith went. So a proper pre season under a disciplinarian coach with a new Head Physio assessing knocks better should improve us anyway.

Leeds has also been a graveyard for players of late, it's the Smith effect

There's a new head of strength and conditioning now at the club also im led to believe. Be good if the club could announce it.

Pretty sure it was announced a fortnight ago but he’s not coming until the end of the season.

Brown and Trueman never played together did they? I’m sure Brown would have been much better alongside Trueman and would have suited his game a bit more. Also I’d assume the plan was originally to maybe move Hoy to 6 when Truey was back and have Brown as the 9 or at least as the interchange hooker

I’d say Trueman, Hoy and Brown would have been better generally and offer much more creativity and balance than Abdul, Sezer and Cust. Theres obviously a risk with Trueman and his injury record but the same can be said about Abdul, Cust and Sezer. Think people have got the black and white specs on with this recruitment, I think it could be an absolute disaster if I’m honest.

Sorry, my bad Andy Shea, head physiotherapist.

Richie Myler the gift that keeps on giving.